Strange Prophecies anew! She wrote
–’The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the window
–I have the key
–Get married Allen don’t take drugs
–the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window.
Love,
your mother’
– “Kaddish“, Allen Ginsberg
Four people, including a man who tried to sell his own sister, have been jailed for a total of nine years for their part in a sham marriage scam.
At an earlier hearing, 22-year-old Michael Wright from Swindon admitted trying to sell his own sister, who had learning difficulties, into a marriage with a Chinese immigrant.
Wright [...]
HANOI—Communist Vietnam was until recently a highly moralistic society in which men looked for virgins to marry and unmarried couples were fined for living together, but that now seems to be changing.
Traditionally, an unmarried woman who became pregnant could have her head shaved and smeared with lime as punishment in Vietnam’s traditional rural societies.
But increasingly, [...]
A poster “Bloom in Harmonious Society” in the city of Taizhou, where Hu Jintao was born. Hu spent his first 17 years in Taizhou (泰州). However, Hu claimed that his hometown is Jixi (绩溪).
People said Hu had gloomy memory of Taizhou in 1978 when he came back from Qinghai to attend his father’s funeral. The [...]
“1235 airlines,
80,000-kilometer railway,
3,730,000-kilometer road,
and enormous number of rivers,
like blood vessels spread,
dedicated to the peak of public transport in the Spring Festival travel season,
year by year.
150,000,000 Chinese people left their family,
to cities, big cities, the capital city,
for better jobs, better schools and hospitals,
now they are on their way home.
Seeing the whistling trains come close,
please salute,
to one [...]
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It was right before the Christmas of 2003, Yu Jie, one of the most famous “Angry young intellectuals” in 1990s, decided to receive the baptism of the holy spirit. On the day before the baptism, he told his wife Ning Xuan (Liu Min) “I don’t like cumbersome ceremony, and I’ll not kneel down in the [...]
China’s state organs have set up a unique matchmaking website for single civil servants working in central ministries and commissions. The web address is www.ywqq.gov.cn . This platform is named Yang Wu Que Qiao 央务鹊桥, one of the key parts in “Sunny Government” project. The website provides “safe and reliable matchmaking service” for those single [...]
The portrait “Yi Zhiyuan: Love, Life and Sad Moment” (易知难：她的亲人、她的生活、她刹那间的悲伤) was shot by Xiao Quan, one of the best professional photographers in China. This photo was taken in 1990 and became extremely successful after been published. On a photography show in Chengdu, many girls stood still in front of this photo and didn’t want to [...]
The Annual Paris Crillon Haute-Couture Debutantes Ball is held at the ultra-chic Le Crillon hotel, overlooking Paris’ Place de la Concorde. Aristocracy and celebrity girls from all over the world will be trussed up in high-end pret au porter or couture and “presented” to society on the arm of a dashing escort chosen for them [...]
Chinese netizens are discussing about the character of the year. There’s a website for people to submit and vote for their ideas:
http://www.nianduhanzi.com/ ( 年度汉字 )
“The Character of the year” first started in Japan in 1995 (named The Kanji of the year – 今年の漢字 Kotoshi no Kanji ). This year the game attracted great interest of [...]
